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" Hip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new. "

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" My record company had to beg me to stop filmin' music videos in the projects. No matter what the song was about, I had 'em out there. "

" I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up. "

" You can't please everybody. You'd be crazy if you're trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself. "

" I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through. "

" I'll always love rap, no matter what's going on. "

" 'Life Is Good' represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life. "

" Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun. My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what's me. "

" When I say 'hip-hop is dead,' basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead. "

" Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them. "

" I'm not talking about Russia in my music. I've never been to Russia. I'm not talking about Africa, Switzerland, China. I'm talking about me being American and growing up in a crazy world and helping to reflect all different sides of life. "

" I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world. "

" To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets. "

" N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New. "

" I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means - I love art. "

" I don't get jealousy, I don't get how people hate each other - I never did. "

" Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it's not up to people's expectations anymore, its still here, and that's says a lot. "

" 'Stillmatic' is the rebirth of 'Illmatic,' my first debut album to come out in 1994. 'Stillmatic' is me coming full circle in my career and with everything, and just bringing pure hip-hop back. "

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" Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence. Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate... I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it. "

" My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely. "

" Some people say I'm conscious, some say I'm a gangsta rapper - it's just me doing me. I'm stomping in my own lane. I'm doing what I do. "

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" I don't go out unless I'm working. My quality time is when I'm doing nothing. "

" Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle. "

" With age comes common sense and wisdom. "

" It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there. "

" You know, rap is sort of like a form of talking, right? So it's like you can hear, you know, the slaves doing it. You can hear, like, you know, Africans and Jamaicans doing it just kind of as, like, a rhythmic, poetic conversation, you know, to a rhythm. "

" I don't want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I'm not perfect, and I'm just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know? "

" The things that I have said when I was young and curious about whatever the subject matter was, I respect those - those are growing pains. Even if you make mistakes, I go back to those things, my not-so-great moments because those are my truest moments; those are my human moments. I'm not even mad at the things I said that were a little dicey. "

" I can't control what people think. They know who I am. "

" Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me - ever. "